Country size comparison

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Illinois is about 5,105 times bigger than Macau.

Macau is approximately 28 sq km, while Illinois is approximately 143,961 sq km, making Illinois 510,400% larger than Macau. Meanwhile, the population of Macau is ~635,293 people (12.2 million more people live in Illinois).
Tip: This to-scale comparison of Macau vs. Illinois uses the Mercator projection, which distorts the size of regions near the poles.
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